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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 23, 1911?.

Application filed October 12, 1916. Serial No. 125,176.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL Kors, a citizen of the United States, residing in the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Im provement in Apparel-Corsets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an apparel corset and particularly to the popular low busted corset. In corsets of this type the distance between the approximated waist line and the upper front edge of the garment is so short that it is impossible to employ sufficient material in this portion of the garment to prevent the upper ends of the front steels from sticking into the body of the wearer or unduly bearing against the same when the required tension is applied to properly adjust the garment in position.

The object of my present invention is to overcome this diiiiculty by making the garment yielding at the upper front edge under variable tensions depending upon the movements of the body, while the tension applied at a portion of the approximated waist line is constant after the garment is adjusted to place.

To accomplish this result and prevent the upper ends of the steels from sticking into the body of the wearer of the garment I employ in each corset body half an insert of yielding material extending from the upper edge thereof adjacent the front steel to a point at an approximated waist line where the said insert terminates in such a manner that the tension applied to the lower side of this approximated waist line is constant, while the applied tension is variable across the approximated waist line, and above the waist the upper front portion of the garment is yielding so as to prevent the upper ends of the front steel from sticking into the body of the wearer.

The corset made in accordance with my invention will be hereinafter more particularly described in connection with the accompanying drawing in which Figure l is a front elevation of my improved corset, and Fig. 2 is a rear elevation of the inner side of one half of the garment.

Referring to the drawing, the apparel corset made in accordance with this invention comprises corset body halves 10 and 11, each provided along their front edges with a corset steel 12 fitted with stud and socket ary, the back edge of each corset body half is provided with series of eyelets 14 through which laces are passed in order to connect and to adjust to position the rear edges of the garment in use. Further, as indicated, and as is also customary, the lower edge of the garment in suitable positions may be provided with hose supporters l5. 4

In the drawing 16 designates the band or strip which it is customary to place at the approximated waist line in a corset garment, and in carrying out my invention for the purposes hereinbefore indicated, I employ an insert 17 preferably made of elastic webbing or other suitable yielding material. This insert 17 extends from the upper edge of the garment in each corset body half adjacent the front steel to the approximated waist line, where, as is indicated, its inner end is cut at an angle. Also as is indicated, the angular end 18 of the insert 17 is adjacent the front steel and approximately at the lower side of the waist band 16. The angular cut at the inner end of the insert 17 is such as to extend across the waist band along a straight line indicated at 19, so that the angular corner 20 is substantially at the upper side of the waist band, while the opposite sides 21 and 22 of the insert are substantially parallel with each other and with the front steel of the garment. In this construction it will be apparent that at the lower portion of the approximated waist line, when the tension is applied thereto, there will be no yielding eifect in the garment, whereas between the lower and upper portions of the approximated waist line strap there is a variable yielding effect increasing from the lower to the upper portion of the approximated waist line, whereas above the waist line there is a uniformly even yielding effect to the upper edge of the garment so that with the movements of the body, the upper portion of the garment yields to prevent the ends of the steels from tending at least to stick into the body of the wearer, whereas the position of the garment is maintained at the same time at the waist line.

I claim as mv invention.

1. In an apparel corset and in each corset body half, an insert of yielding material extending from the upper edge of the corset adjacent the front steel to the approximated Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each. by addressing the is out at an angle, with one corner lying substantially at the lower portion of the approximated waist line adjacent the front steel and the other corner at the upper portion of the approximated waist line in order to effect a variable yielding movement between the lower and upper portions of the approximated waist line.

DANIEL KOPS.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C.

Signed by me this fifth day of October, 20 

